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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V

author (Bishopbriggs, 1818 - 1878, Venice)
subject (Ghent, 1500 - 1558, Monasterio de Yuste)
printer (active Edinburgh and London, 1857 - 1904)
publisher (active London, 1879 - 1903)
Date1891
Place MadeEngland, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions24 x 18 x 5.5 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS.G.S.4.6
eMuseum ID723272
EmbARK ObjectID21287
TMS Source ID7684
Last Updated8/9/24
Descriptionli + [3], 528 pages ; 8°

Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
MarksNotes
Sticker (on front flyleaf, bottom left): W.B. Clarke & Co. / Booksellers Stationers / Boston
Inscribed in black ink (on edition page): 653 
Inscribed in pencil (on page ix, left margin, halfway down): 73
Enclosed: leaflet advertising the book series 

ProvenanceNotesProbably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from W.B. Clarke and Co., Boston, after 1891.